The SARS debate is starting to get ugly, as the spinners go into overdrive:
Illness in Canada Shows SARS Gaps
Mild Symptoms of Patients Raise a Host
Of Questions; Lab-Test Error Is Possible
An outbreak of respiratory illness at a Canadian nursing home has raised a troubling question: Will SARS come back, and if so, how will we know it?
This week, Canada's top testing laboratory said several elderly patients at Kinsmen Place Lodge, a nursing home in Vancouver, British Columbia, appeared to harbor the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome.
By Elena Cherney in Toronto, Antonio Regalado in New York and Mark Heinzl in Toronto
Yet because most of the patients have had only mild, coldlike illnesses, rather than suffering from life-threatening SARS symptoms, the findings have raised a host of questions, including whether the lab tests could be in error to whether a new less-severe form of SARS has been silently spreading. |
